guys, guys, let's do this big deal. this is what we want to do. this is what -- if you look at the polling, it's what the public wanlts them to do. >> let's look at president obama's approval rating. 47% approve and 48% disapprove. >> they are not good numbers for the president. yet, look at all the -- look what's going on with the debt debate and he's clobbering them in this argument. it should be a big warning side to the republicans on how they could lose the messaging war. >> chuck, i don't know about you, i would take those numbers in a second. >> it's a great number. >> given the right track, the wrong track, unemployment, the sagging economy, the chaos of washington, d.c., give me a 47% approval rating knowing i spent $1 billion in advertising over the next 12 months. i'm sitting pretty. right? >> pretty is relative. he's certainly -- look, job approval and your overall number is a fascinating point that our pollsters point out. the approval rating of a president in an election year and the percentage of vote he gets, track pretty closely b